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One of the things I’m enjoying about the Mallory & Mount world is that so far there are only four kinds of magic-making, and they’re quite limited, and there’s quite a high cost in using it.
Fae Tales is generally a very overpowered universe, and while there are costs of using magic (it’s not a coincidence that often the most powerful active magic users possess the least amount of conscience, and they almost all lead very solitary lives with the exception of Fenwrel).
I like coming up with unique magical systems, though I think most of the ones I’ve written have gone into literary science fiction / steampunk fantasy. Mallory & Mount presents an opportunity to sort of do it in a serial on AO3. It was really hard not to add magical elements to the Three Choices oneshot, honestly? I’m glad I stuck with like a ‘human only’ world, but the system was crying out to be a part of it, even in just a subtle background way. I think it will integrate pretty effortlessly with both Lewis and Mallory when I start writing it.
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Fromthe ‘random fact about a WIP’ meme!
